#act

I wasn't trying to top Pulp Fiction with Jackie Brown. I wanted to go underneath it and make a more modest character study movie. ↗

— Quentin Tarantino

#character #fiction #go #i #jackie

If there is something magic about the collaborations I have with actors it's because I put the character first. ↗

— Quentin Tarantino

#because #character #collaborations #first #i

My parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor. ↗

— Quentin Tarantino

#director #going #i #oh #parents

Actually, I enjoy the process of writing a big long novel. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#big #enjoy #i #long #novel

Character, to me, is the life's blood of fiction. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#character #fiction #life #me

Children have very sharp powers of observation - probably sharper than adults - yet at the same time their emotional reactions are murky and much more primitive. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#emotional #more #much #murky #observation

I love the tradition of Dickens, where even the most minor walk-on characters are twitching and particular and alive. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#characters #dickens #even #i #i love

The storytelling gift is innate: one has it or one doesn't. But style is at least partly a learned thing: one refines it by looking and listening and reading and practice - by work. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#innate #learned #least #listening #looking

Narcissism and the Confederate dead cannot be connected logically, or even historically; even were the connection an historical fact, they would not stand connected as art, for no one experiences raw history. ↗

— Allen Tate

#cannot #confederate #connected #connection #dead

Poets, in their way, are practical men; they are interested in results. ↗

— Allen Tate

#men #poets #practical #results #their